Poles apart: hard right wins by a sliver
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Poland’s presidential election was a fight between two distinct visions of the country’s future. Our correspondent explains how the nationalist victor, a political newcomer, will shape Europe. Why drunken bar brawls are declining in Britain (7:31). And remembering the “Wonga Coup” mercenary, Simon Mann (12:18).
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| 1:39.9 | Our daring correspondent went out in Cardiff, a city known as one of Britain's most hard drinking. |
| 1:46.8 | In years past, he might have expected booze-fueled punch-ups to break out. |
| 1:51.4 | Not anymore, and that lack of violence is reflected across Britain. |
| 1:56.9 | And when private mercenaries tried to overthrow the regime of Equatorial Guinea in 2004, |
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